Last time we explained how we found “The Perfect Monopoly” house in Apache Junction, made an offer and lost. We came in second. Then we made the offer on a house in Casa Grande that we thought could be “The Perfect Monopoly” house, made an offer and won. But it turned out to be [...]
Since Jeff and Jim became “partners” in buying, renting, holding, selling and trading single family homes (SFH) for TheMonopolyProject we have significantly increased our search activities. We are looking for “The Perfect Monopoly” house. We went to Coolidge, an outlying suburb of Phoenix with a hot new electric truck story called “Nikola”. We went [...]
Should you start your own ‘Monopoly Project’? Should you start acquiring rental properties? In this series we examine the ways to start your own “Monopoly Project” (TMP). In our first post of this series, we explained the first thing you should do is to get into shape – Financial Shape. Then we showed how [...]
Previously we discussed the concept of “Opportunity Cost”. If you choose to do one thing, you forgo many other choices. This “cost” is true whether it is money, time, or any other asset. We talked about the opportunity cost of going on a ‘once in a lifetime’ 10 day trip to the 75th anniversary of [...]
Now that December 2020 is completed, TMP is still comfortably in second place in “The Financial League”. Gold jumped back up. Presidential jitters? Our TMP house continued to appreciate, increasing by $2,611 (+1.14%); at least according to the estimates at Redfin, Zillow and Realtor.com: But the stock market was [...]
Should you start your own ‘Monopoly Project’? Should you start acquiring rental properties? In this series we examine the ways to start your own “Monopoly Project”. In our first post of this series, we explained the first thing you should do is to get into shape – Financial Shape. Then we showed how and [...]
Previously we discussed the concept of “Opportunity Cost”. If you choose to do one thing, you forgo many other choices. The “cost” is applicable whether it is money, time, or any other asset. We talked about the opportunity cost of going on a ‘once in a lifetime’ 10 day trip to the 75th anniversary of [...]
Now that November 2020 is completed, TMP is still comfortably in second place in “The Financial League”. Gold fell back slightly. Our TMP house continued to appreciate; at least according to the estimates at Redfin, Zillow and Realtor.com: Up $3,254 in one month?! That’s 1.4% in a month! That’s crazy! But the stock [...]
Should you start your own ‘Monopoly Project’? Should you start acquiring rental properties? In this series we examine ways to start your own “Monopoly Project”. In our first post of this series, we explained by the first thing you should do is to get into shape – Financial Shape. We explained how and why [...]
Previously we discussed the concept of “Opportunity Cost”. If you choose to do one thing, you forgo many other choices. This “cost” is true whether it is money, time, or any other asset.We talked about the opportunity cost of going on a ‘once in a lifetime’ 10 day trip to the 75th anniversary of D [...]
